Monster Hunter Wilds Sets Out Roadmap To Improve Performance on PC, Starting With Title Update 4

Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 4, which addresses a fig of stableness and show issues, arrives connected December 16, Capcom has announced.

As portion of this, Capcom has "committed" to improving stableness and performance, detailing what changes are coming and when, including CPU/GPU improvements, load reduction, and the optimization of "PC-specific processes and summation of options and presets to trim processing load."

The committedness comes arsenic Monster Hunter Wilds' awesome sales, particularly connected PC, were offset by its 'Mixed' Steam reviews astatine launch. Despite manager Yuya Tokuda's committedness to stableness and improvements, dissatisfaction persists, and adjacent with caller contented and seasons, fans stay unhappy with the authorities of the game, to the constituent wherever immoderate are taking things excessively acold and harassing idiosyncratic Capcom squad members.

Now, Capcom says the escaped Title Update 4 volition present "an array of show improvements crossed each platforms," focusing connected CPU and GPU optimization and reducing processing load "with much than 100 under-the-hood improvements, among others."

"We'll travel this up successful January with a PC-specific update with adjacent much improvements, and are looking into further optimization for implementation successful the February contented update," the squad explained. "We're committed to making Monster Hunter Wilds a large acquisition for each players. Thank you for your patience and continued support."

Here's the afloat database of changes, with much to travel connected December 12:

Monster Hunter Wilds Commitment to Improving Stability and Performance:

December: Title Update 4

CPU/GPU optimization (All Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series, Steam)

• Processing Improvements: Processing clip volition beryllium improved by distributing the process crossed frames for elements that request the heaviest load, which includes players, monsters, and graphical idiosyncratic interfaces.
• Load Reduction: Processing load is reduced by comprehensively reviewing and streamlining assorted processes, specified arsenic reducing the fig of simultaneous effects and improving collision detection for Palico and Seikret.
• Various different improvements, including optimization and simplification of representation usage, volition beryllium implemented.

January 2026: Steam Version Exclusive Patch

Optimization of PC-specific processes and summation of options and presets to trim processing load (Steam)

• Adding caller graphics and CPU settings arsenic good arsenic caller presets, providing further options to trim processing load
• Improving shader compilation process (reduced stuttering)
• VRAM usage improvements
• High-resolution texture battalion improvements (improving texture streaming speeds)

February 2026: Ver. 1.041 — Additional Optimization

• Adding level-of-details (LOD) prime levels to the polygon mesh for 3D models (reducing GPU processing load)
• We are besides re-examining memory-related processes to place further imaginable improvements.

Last week, astatine the PlayStation Partner Awards 2025 Japan Asia held successful Tokyo, Monster Hunter Wilds won the Grand Award and the User's Choice Award. In an interrogation held earlier the grant ceremony, Ryozo Tsujimoto, the shaper of this work, and Yuya Tokuda, the director, answered questions from section media, and acknowledged the criticisms raised by players.

"Immediately aft the release, we apologized for the inconvenience caused by the measurement of contented and the trouble level," Tokuda said. "Despite this, we were delighted to person assorted awards, including Users' Choice awards. We would similar to convey each the players who person fixed their opinions and spoken lukewarm words adjacent successful this situation. The improvement squad was capable to crook everyone's feedback into an plus and enactment connected the update with each our strength, and I deliberation the effect was besides the crushed wherefore players voted for us."

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